So do I.

No view to north. D.A.R.V. brings me very near to an acceptable aligment.And PHD2, as also EKOS requires at least a good first align to the NCP before you can even use it.

So D.A.R.V. is - in my opinion - an elementary tool.

Until I detected D.A.R.V, I never could get my mount aligned correctly on my balcony. It is so simple and yet practical.

Also a very famous windows competitor application (APT), which I cannot use on my Linux devices, including the astroberry (based on Raspberry Pi), implemented the method.

Tracking on.

Take photo and capture / solve, slew to south/dec zero, take a DARV photo, correct azimuth…

Slew to east/dec zero, take a DARV-Photo, correct altitude…

www.cloudynights.com/articles/cat/articl...by-robert-vice-r2760

Genious and simple, and it works.

If I just had time and knew how to inplement…

Cheers Axel

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